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. 2015 Apr 10;10(4):e0122953. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122953

Fig 1. Design of siRNA-ppts and measuring their inhibition of HIV-1 replication.

Fig 1

(A) Three siRNAs were designed to target the HIV-1 3′PPT region: siRNA-PPT1, siRNA-PPT2 and siRNA-PPT3 contain sequence matching nt9069-9089, nt9071-9091, and nt9076-9096 of HXB2, respectively. The sense, passenger strands of the respective siRNA duplexes are indicated and aligned with the corresponding 3’PPT and flanking sequences of NL4-3. Importantly, the targeted sequences within NL4-3, v120 and v126 virus strains are identical. (B) The efficiency of siRNA-PPT inhibition of HIV replication was monitored by RT activity assay.